Luke opens the movie in hiding and almost totally disconnected from his Jedi past, which Hamill thinks just isn’t true of the character he played in A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

In a number of interviews given ahead of the release, Hamill outlined his differences of opinion with director Rian Johnson about Luke Skywalker.

“Luke was so optimistic and so hopeful, cheerful, here he’s in a very, very dark place, one that I didn’t expect,” he told Spanish outlet SensaCine.

“I said to Rian, I said, ‘Jedis don’t give up’. Even if he had a problem, he would maybe take a year to try and regroup.